Shower-curtain ring



Dec. 10, 1929. L. AUSTER ET AL' 1,739,382

SHOWER CURTAIN RING Filed July 51, 1926 1/V IE N TOPS Joni-s fl-uster' Marie flus'er- ATTOR N EYS Patented Dec. 10, 1929 PATENT- oFFicr:

" LOUIS .ansrnn AND MARIE AUSTER, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHOWER-CURTAIN BIN G Application filed July 31, 1926. Serial No. 126,175.

This invention relates to rings for supporting and sliding curtains for enclosing bath tubs to prevent the discharge of water on the floor or a bath room when a person takes a shower bath. It has been proposed to provide rings having an upper portion which is shaped to conform to a supporting rod which receives the rings whereby the curtain may be moved to an operative or inoperative position.

Such type of ring, however does not permit a ready sliding movement of the curtain because of the fact that the rings become jammed and tend to move into each other so that it necessitates particular care in arranging the curtain in its proper position. Furthermore the frictional contact between the metal of the rings and the supporting rod tends to prevent easy movement of the rings on the rod so that while certain of the rings will readily move forward other rings will resist the movement and thus require addi tional effort for placin the curtain either in an operative or inoperative position.

The present invention is intended to eliminate these objections so that when an edge of the curtain is grasped and the same is moved to an operative or inoperative position the rings will slide along the supporting rod freely and readily since rollers are provided 3 to eliminate the frictional contact between the rings and the rod.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a ring which may be readily applied to the curtain and likewise to the rod which will not only move freely over the rod but which will tend to maintain the rings in predetermined plane for maintaining the folds of the curtain at predetermined intervals and to permit ready positioning of the curtain.

This invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description, in view of the accompanying drawings forming. a part of the specification; nevertheless it is to be understood that the invention is not confined to the disclosure parture from the salient features of the insupporting position for a curtain 10'which is carried by a pole 11 by means of rings 12. The pole as is usual is supported at its opposite ends by means of bosses 13 mounted on plates 14. These plates aresecured to the wall of the bath room in any approved manner. The pole has a straight portion 15'running longitudinally above the bath tub (not shown) and an offset end portion 16 which is adapted to supportthe curtain 10 in an inoperative position.

The usual shower fixture 17 is secured to the wall 18 of the bath room and has an arm 19 extending outwardly upon the end of which is provided a perforated nozzle 20v disposed directly over the tub in such a manner that the water will be sprayed directly to the user of the tub.

Referring more particularlyto Figure 2 it will be seen that a ring is provided in which a pair of arms 36 are pivotally connected together at 37. These arms are extended upwardly then outwardly at38 and then curved as shown at 39 to provide a suflicient space to receive the rod 11. The upper free ends of the arms 39are bent inwardly as shown at- 40 and are brought adjacent each other as shown at 50 when said straightportions are received by the central longitudinal passage in the roller 41. The roller 41 has an annular groove 29 which will ride on the pole 15. i In applying the ring shown in Figure 2 it is only necessary to withdrawone of the straight portions 40-of either of the arms 39 from the roller or pulley 41. This free arm then is inserted through an eye 28 of the curtain 10 and the arms are brought together with the straight portion 40 being inserted within the longitudinal axial passage of the pulley 41 after said arms have been placed the invention is disclosed and in which apair of arms 51 .are pivotally connected together intermediate their ends as shown at 52. Each of the arms is providedwith a semicircular extension 53 which is provided at the free end thereof with a reduced portion 54. These reduced portions of the semicircular extensions 53 overlap each other as shown in Figure 4. It will be appreciated that the semi-circular extension 53 may be elongated and conform to the shape of the member 36 shown in Figure 2. The upper ends of the arms are likewise semi-circular to receive the poleor bar 15. The upper free ends of the arms are inbent and aline to form straight portions 54 which are adapted to receive a grooved roller 55. The portions 54 are inserted into the opposite ends of an axial passage 56 of the grooved pulley 55. I

The lower extension 53 instead of being reduced as shown at 54 may be placed in juxta-position, with the free ends of a suiiicient length to prevent-the ends from being readily displaced from the eyes 28 of the curtain 10. r

In applying the rings shown in Figure 3, the arms 51 are moved away from each other until an upper end of one of the arms is removed from the axial v passage .56 in the grooved pulley 55. The upper end of the arm is slipped over the pole 15 with the pulley 55 resting on said pole or rod. When the upper ends of the arms 51 are moved away from each other at this time the lower extensions 53 are likewise displaced with the overlapped portions 54 being moved away from each other so that the free ends of overlappedportions 54 may be readily inserted within an eye 28 of the curtain 10. When inserted within the passage 56 of the grooved pulley 55, the ends 54 of the extension are again returned to their operative overla ped position for receiving the eyes 28 an supporting the curtain. The grooved roller will maintain the rings in aplane at right angles to the axis of the pole 15 at all times and provide for a ready manipulation of the curta1n elther to an operativeor inoperative position. I

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alinement with each other, a tubular member having an axial passage adapted to receive the alined straight portions of the arms.

" LOUIS AUSTER.

" MARIE AUSTER. 

